One of the bugs that some of us noticed on Windows Phone, possibly starting after the GDR1 OS update, was a fuzzy and low resolution image of ourselves for the Me tile. It was particularly frustrating on devices with high resolution displays, as everything would look sharp and crisp except for your blurry mini me. Despite re-uploading the photo numerous times, the service, tied to your Live/Outlook account, would downgrade the image and push back a fuzzy version within a few hours.

We now have three GDR2 devices including the Lumia 520 (AT&T), Lumia 925 (T-Mobile) and Lumia 1020 (AT&T) and all three have high resolution images for our tile. On every non-GDR2 device, it’s the opposite: fuzzy and low resolution. In the image above, you can see the Samsung ATIV S (left) running GDR1 and the Nokia Lumia 925 (right) running GDR2. The difference is night and day.

While this is a tiny fix, it’s a welcome one. Windows Phone 8 build 10327 (GDR2) has started a limited roll out for some unbranded devices and it is expected to go wider in August. For Nokia phones, it will be packaged with their Amber firmware update.

Do you suffer from low-resolution Me Tile images? Has GDR2 fixed it? Let us know in comments.

So how about when someone in your people hub uploads a pic to facebook or something? It shows up on the tile super fuzzy and nasty too. Did they fix this also? That is the main reason I don't use a double wide tile for the people hub, the photo updates looks absolutely TERRIBLE.

For me, this problem was weird. It cropped up sometimes, while didnt some other times. I doubt if it has something to do with GDR1. However, i'd love it to be consistently HD. I hate it when it turns in that fuzzy image. I gave up on that after going crazy for almost a month and not finding a solution.

Picked up a 520 for my daughter and it does have a different version than my 920. Checked when I was going through settings and saw that she had the advanced color settings. Not sure if it is GDR2 though since the 520s are not getting the glance feature.

I see. That certainly explains why I don't have my own picture pinned to the home screen of my mobile phone.
Oldfashioned, I know... OTOH if I want to share private details with the rest of the world and have it readily available for NSA I'd simply put it on my homepage, potentially also with a picture of myself so others will also have the chance to see what I look like.

I don't see what you're upset about here? It's a quick way to check in on FB or see your notifications? If you're concerned that someone will see what you look like on your phone....put a password on it? I'm not sure what you're upset about?

Go into the people hub and right above the list of your contacts should be a profile photo...click the photo and it changes screens. At the bottom of the screen there is a thumbtack..press it and it will pin the me tile to your homescreen

I tried to change my profile picture via the windows phone few days back.... initially the image was fine... but may be after few sync... the image was looking blurred.. low resolution. So your solution is not going to work... possibly if it worked for you, consider yourself lucky!!

It has to do with using a Windows 8 PC. Mine didn't start doing that until I put W8 on all my PCs. I would upload a new pic and it would be fine until I logged onto the PC. Thought it was fixed though and then I put W8.1 on one of my PCs and it started again. But now, if my wife logs on to the 8.1 PC it will change her pic on my phone from an alternate photo I use for her back to her W8 pic. This only happens when she logs on the 8.1 PC and not the 8.

I'm sorry Daniel to contact you this way and of topic but it seems like Instance is running back, i uploaded a picture via Instance and a few minutes later it's still there .... http://instagram.com/p/cZixD4qJPv/

This is kind of weird: I have a Lumia 920 on AT&T which, of course, hasn't received the gdr2 update yet. So today I saw the update on the store tile for display and touch and went through with the update as I normally do. While reading the above article, I checked my own phone just out of curiosity and there is a touch heading in my settings list. I checked further and the touch option is still under the display and touch heading too. They both do the same thing and one changes the other and vice-versa. Just thought maybe someone would find it interesting. Is it a mistake made by Nokia? These updates usually don't change a whole lot on my phone. As I understand them, they are usually changes that take effect at the next firmware update.